Philip Levine Quotes
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
Philip Levine
Quotes to Explore
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
Halsey
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
Garrett Neff
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Flann O'Brien
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
Salma Hayek
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I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
Abbey Clancy
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Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
Walt Mossberg
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I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
Karen Armstrong
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It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating…Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun
Zooey Deschanel
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
John Adams
